Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity

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Verso Books, 2008 - Social Science - 98 pages
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls “non-space” results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity.

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Prologue
1
Anthropological Place
35
From Places to NonPlaces
61
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Marc Augé is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

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